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Greek Film Week Debuts in Sao Paulo

The Greek Film Week, to be held for the first time in Sao Paulo, Brazil, aims to highlight the course and the wealth of the Greek cinema since the 1930s. The festival, which will run until October 16, is organized...

Spiros Gianniotis Wins Silver for Greece in 10k Open-Water Swimming at Rio Olympics [video]

Greek swimming legend Spiros Gianniotis won a Silver medal for Greece in the gruelling 10k open-water swimming event in Rio. After chartering through an Olympic course  that avoids Brazil's most controversial waters, Gianniotis proved that he had the endurance required...

Why Greece Always Leads the Athlete's Parade at the Olympics

The Olympic Games 2016 kicked off on Friday, August 5 with the opening ceremony that took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Following the tradition of past years, the Greek athletes led the athletes’ parade, because of the country’s...

2 Greek Athletes Banned from the Olympic Games for Doping

One day before the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games 2016, in Rio, Brazil, a Greek athlete was banned by the Hellenic National Council for Combating Doping. The swimmer had already travelled to Rio when she was informed that...

The Olympic Flame Arrives in Rio de Janeiro

The Olympic flame arrived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Wednesday, August 3, after its 20,000 km tour around the world. The torch relay was completed in the presence of a large crowd that lined up to watch the...

Athina Onassis May Not Be a Billionairess Anymore!

Athina Onassis, heiress to the once-mythical fortune of Aristotle Onassis, is assumed to be rich though nobody can estimate for certain how much she is worth. She inherited the fortune of her mother and half of her grandfather's wealth...

Watch Katerina Stefanidi Fly Over Pole Vault at 4.80m [video]

Awesome Katerina Stefanidi showed that she was in great form in the lead-up to the Rio 2016 Olympics by flying over 4.86m in the pole vault at the Filothei Athletics Gala meet - making the best result for 2016....

The Best Barista in the World Is… Greek! [video]

Nikos Kanakaris, aged 32, won the 2016 'Barista & Farmer' TV reality show. He made it to the finals after being selected among 200 other contestants who lived and worker together in a Brazilian coffee commune. Finally, he made his...

Security Catches Doda Cheating on Athina Onassis

Billionairess Athina Onassis, aged 31, has kept her lips sealed concerning the cause of her marriage breakdown with Olympic medal-winning husband Alberto Affonso de Miranda Neto, otherwise known as "Doda." Daily Mail Online published exclusive reports that the decade-long...

Sotiris Karamesinis Brings Greek Drama to Brazil

Residing in Rio de Janeiro since 2008, Greek theater director, Sotiris Karamesinis has managed to stage three Greek tragedies in Brazil and incorporate his own acting technique known as MUSA (musical system of acting), which he bases on the art...